Word: deviled
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...active in organizing the Jewish Brigade within the British army during World War II. In 1946, however, the British imprisoned him for four months on suspicion of condoning terrorism. When Israel became a nation and he its first Foreign Minister, he changed his original Russian name, Shertok, meaning "little devil," to Sharett, meaning "servant...
...leased Kindley Air Force Base, the Duke, technically the airport commander's landlord, graciously thanked him for the courtesy of his runway. That afternoon, during a round of nine parishes and two towns, the Duke lost his equerries at a garden party, asked in mock dismay: "Where the devil's my escort?" Next day, the royal plane set down at Jamaica's tourist-fringed Montego Bay. The Queen was presented by Jamaica's Chief Minister William Alexander Bustamante with a hand-printed address of welcome, containing a wishful hint at the old dream of a West...
Born. To Virginia Mayo, 30, wide-eyed blonde cinemactress (Devil's Canyon), and Cinemactor Michael O'Shea, 47 (Fixed Bayonets): their first child (his third), a daughter. Name: Mary Catherine. Weight...
18th Century France (The Devil's Laughter, by Frank Yerby; Dial). In the turmoil of Revolution and Terror, a third-estate hero runs afoul of a villainous second-estate chap, toys with a tawny-haired demimondaine whose kisses curl his toes inside his boots, but nobly marries Fleurette, a blind flower girl...
...hold his own only at the local booze parlor. Grandmother Mary is a termagant who keeps "givin' him hell . . . because that's the way you have to treat a man." Aunt Margaret is in love with a man who is not only married but a "black Protestant devil" besides, and pretty Aunt Louise is dying of TB. As for Uncle Al, a shoe salesman who foots most of the bills, he talks like Babbitt and acts like Mussolini...